My Big, Gigantic Drum Kit

bryanwaterman:

Debbie Harry and Kermit sing “Rainbow Connection” on The Muppet Show, 1980.

I’m pretty sure I watched this when it first aired. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it prompted my mom to mention that she went to high school with Debbie. Sadly, they were a couple of grades apart and didn’t know each other.

Blondie was an oddly pervasive part of my childhood. I remember the top 40 radio station that my elementary school bus driver listened to only playing about ten songs, and three were by Blondie. Late ’70s/early ’80s in northern NJ, you’d think lots of Springsteen, right? Nope—”Call Me,” “Heart of Glass,” and “The Tide is High” on a near-daily basis. Although now that I look at the Billboard Top 10 from 1979 and 80, it looks like the station was very reliably sticking to the hits.

crumbler:

It’s happening y’all.

Ugh.

We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire in a Swing, Wearing a Frog Hat with Googly Eyes

Or

Lot 49, Hold the Crying

Or

Dad Had a ‘Funny’ Idea at the Baby Shower Onesie-Decorating Station About 14 Months Ago

convincingindie:

philosop-her:

TAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MY “EATING BOYS” PLAYLIST

currently I just have Ke$ha’s “Cannibal” and Ida Maria’s “I eat boys like you for breakfast.” 

Off the top of my head:

• Nelly Furtado - Maneater
• Neko Case - People Got a Lot of Nerve
• Freya - Why Girls Like Me Eat Boys Like You
• Azealia Banks - Fuck Up the Fun
• Nicki’s epic verse in Kanye’s “Monster”

What else we got?

Shakira’s “She Wolf” probably fits the bill. Hall and Oates’ “Maneater,” of course, and you could switch it out with the Bird and the Bee’s cover of the same to stick with the theme.

And maybe a selection or two from Little Shop of Horrors, with the understanding that Audrey II, despite usually (always?) being voiced by a man, is a girl at heart.

thejacketpocket:

Friend & Lover

“Reach Out of the Darkness”

This week’s episode of Mad Men reminded of this song, which I put on nearly every mix cd I made for a couple of years there. It’s such an unusual song, with an intro that’s basically a breakbeat and a minimalist drums/bass/vocals combination that is recorded like a funkier Young Marble Giants. The song flips between that and some easygoing, wear-flowers-in-your-hair trip, which like a lot of 1960s songs make capital-L Love sound mighty creepy. The arrangement and production of the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” will melt your skin, and Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody To Love” is one the most frightening pop songs ever. Even the use of the concept of darkness and the standalone shrieking of the word “love” two-thirds of the way through this song is freaky (as is the fact that church groups took to this song for recruitment). Then again it’s possible that the Sixties love songs are only scary through the filter of the subconscious and the lens of history, as my generation wasn’t around for the 1960s love-ins but was around for the waves of Baby Boomer divorces.

That’s what happened with Friend & Lover, the husband-and-wife duo of Jim and Cathy post. The rest of their debut album is pretty terrible, owing to multiple producers, poorly recorded vocals, and an unfocused vision that tried to force them into being more Lovin’ Spoonful than they were really capable or interested in being. I mean, “Boston Is A Lovely Town” sure isn’t going to make anyone forget “Dirty Water.” Not long after their one and only album, the couple split.

Probably because I reflexively turn this song off when I hear that grating “I think it’s so groovy now …” intro, I’d never thought about a lot of this. I’d also never noticed that, in the verses, Jim Post is a vocal ringer for Bryan MacLean from Love.

joumanakayrouz:

1. You are 3 years old or younger.

2. You are an infant or toddler.

3. You are in the very early developmental stages of human life.

4. You never experienced September 11, and you don’t know what it is because you can barely grasp basic tasks like walking and using a toilet.

5. You were born on or after January 1, 2010.

6. You were born three years, five months and seven days ago or more recently.

7. You cannot read this list because your brain is not developed enough for literacy of the English language.

8. You’ve never been on MySpace and you don’t know what that is. You cannot type or competently use a computer.

9. You don’t know who Michael Jordan is. You don’t know who most celebrities are because you’re in such an early stage of life that you can barely recognize and remember the people in your immediate and extended family.

10. You never knew Pluto as a planet. You don’t know what planets are or anything about the cosmos because you are a young child who has no concept of abstract ideas whatsoever.

(via markrichardson)

We went for a walk a few weeks ago and saw these dudes getting ready to devour a pink flamingo. As of this afternoon, things seem to have escalated.

juanalikesmusic:

sctttnnnt:

juanalikesmusic:

Lately I’ve been thinking that this blog is exactly the opposite of what anyone would like to read: I write about music from almost 20 years ago, I write really long post with long paragraphs, I have no idea what it’s going on in the current music scene (this is only half true), I write about…

For the record 1994 is arguably the BEST year for music in the 90s. Herein are the classic albums of that year, in alphabetical order. I can’t possibly get into ranking these (other than to say Yank Crime is the greatest rock record of all time, by any artist in any decade).

• Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works II
• Bedhead: Whatfunlifewas
• Brise-Glace: When In Vanitas…
• Craw: s/t 
• Dazzling Killmen: Face of Collapse
• Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime
• Elliott Smith: Roman Candle
• Flying Saucer Attack: Distance
• JAKS: Hollywood Blood Capsule
• Low: I Could Live in Hope
• Palace Brothers: Days in the Wake
• Palace Songs: Hope EP
• R.E.M.: Monster
• Rodan: Rusty
• Shellac: At Action Park
• Superchunk: Foolish
• Tortoise: s/t
• Weezer: s/t

And then there are some other capital-C Classics that others would canonize but which I would place below most or all of the above:

• Bark Psychosis: Hex
• Jeff Buckley: Grace
• Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
• Slowdive: Souvlaki

And I’m probably forgetting some others—for instance in any other genres of music like hip hop which was having its own heyday at this time.

Listening to Justin Timberlake’s new album, The 20/20 Experience, for at least the 10th time while I still have to listen to an incredible amount of albums released in 1994, makes me feel quite guilty. 

A few more for your ongoing 1994 lists!

• Hole: Live Through This
• Shudder to Think: Pony Express Record
• Freedy Johnston: This Perfect World
• Brainiac: Bonsai Superstar
• Jawbox: For Your Own Special Sweetheart

Visqueen - Summer Snow (Live on KEXP) (by kexpradio)

“Cloning David Bowie
without asking him
Getting sent to jail
in Ziggy Stardust skin
Tonight you’ll be
the shimmer up above me
Sending rockets up to love me
Taking measurements
to fit me in your day.”

This verse came on while I was reading this story about the Catholic League condemning the new video by the “switch-hitting, bisexual, senior citizen from London.” Oddly enough, I’d never noticed the lyrics before, but I think it’s fair to assume Bowie has a pretty freewheeling policy when it comes to cloning him.

semperidem:

lisahanawalt:

luckypeach:

The last in our lil’ series of James Beard Award-nominated stuff from LP: The Secret Lives of Chefs by Lisa Hanawalt! This comic also appears in her upcoming book MY DIRTY DUMB EYES, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

Here’s this comic in full! Thanks Lucky Peach!

Lisa Hanawalt is rad, and this is rad.

I’ve always had my suspicions about Bittman.

(via sayyes)